News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: AmCham Bangladesh deeply mourns the passing of Dr Forrest E. Cookson, former President of AmCham Bangladesh.He passed away last night while undergoing treatment at United Hosp...
Earlier in November, Sheikh Hasina was featured in Forbes' list of 100 most powerful women in 2017. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been included in the Time Magazine’s list of 100 most influential people of 2018. US President Donald T...
Awami League (AL) general secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the government has nothing to do over the issue of BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia's participation in the next general election as it will be decided by the court. "The government...
At least three persons were killed and one injured in a head-on a collision between two motorcycles on Dinajpur-Gobindaganj highway at Jaliapara in Sadar upazila on Saturday afternoon, according to UNB. The deceased were identified as Abdul Hai, son...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion in an overnight drive arrested two members of an international gold smuggling racket with 135 gold bars from Uttar area on Saturday, reports UNB. Lieutenant Colonel Sarwar Bin Kasem, commanding officer of Rab-1, sai...
The government on Saturday awarded 10 apparel companies for maintaining high safety and workers' health standards in their factories, reports UNB. The award titled 'Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Good Practice Award' has been given to garments...
A total of 1,431 non-cadre aspirants of 36th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) on Saturday asked the concerned authorities to complete the 100 per cent appointment of their batch before publishing the results of 37th BCS, reports UNB. In a press briefi...
Detectives have arrested four young men from the city's Chankharpool over the attack on the residence of Dhaka University vice-chancellor during protests against the existing quota system in public service, according to UNB. The arrestees are M Raki...
DHAKA: Students, under the banner of Bangladesh General Students' Right Protection Council, formed a human chain on DU campus, to press the government for issuing a gazette notification on cancelling quota system in public service jobs. Hundreds of...
Banglapress Online: Nine more alleged drug traders were killed in reported gunfights with law enforcers early yesterday during the ongoing anti-narcotics drive across the country, reports UNB. Of them, three were killed in Dhaka city while one each...
Banglapress Online: Tofael Ahmed Joseph, a criminal who rose to infamy in the 1990s, has been freed on presidential mercy. "We freed him after receiving the order on Sunday,” said Md Jahangir Kabir, senior jail superintendent of Dhaka Central Jail...
Banglapress Online: Fitra has been fixed at minimum of Tk 70 per person this year. Islamic Foundation fixed the amount at a meeting chaired by Maulana Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, senior pesh imam of Baitul Mukarram national mosque and president of the...
Banglapress, Dhaka: A Chittagong court on Thursday issued an arrest warrant against Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Giasuddin Quader Chowdhury, also younger brother of executed war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, in a defamation case filed...
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